Analysis of brain-body size relationships in australopithecines based on the regression equation y (brain weight) = bx (body weight) 0.23 indicates that gracile and robust australopithecines were equally advanced in the degree of encephalization and clearly above the pongid level of brain evolution.
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W. Leutenegghr (1973) studied this question.